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Female orgasm --- Women

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Why women evolved to have orgasms--when most of their primate relatives don't--is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Elisabeth Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary explanations of the female orgasm have passed muster as science? A judicious and revealing look at all twenty evolutionary accounts of the trait of human female orgasm, Lloyd's book is at the same time a case study of how certain biases steer science astray. Over the past fifteen years, the effect of sexist or male-centered approaches to science has been hotly debated. Drawing especially on data from nonhuman primates and human sexology over eighty years, Lloyd shows what damage such bias does in the study of female orgasm. She also exposes a second pernicious form of bias that permeates the literature on female orgasms: a bias toward adaptationism. Here Lloyd's critique comes alive, demonstrating how most of the evolutionary accounts either are in conflict with, or lack, certain types of evidence necessary to make their cases--how they simply assume that female orgasm must exist because it helped females in the past reproduce. As she weighs the evidence, Lloyd takes on nearly everyone who has written on the subject: evolutionists, animal behaviorists, and feminists alike. Her clearly and cogently written book is at once a convincing case study of bias in science and a sweeping summary and analysis of what is known about the evolution of the intriguing trait of female orgasm.

Female orgasm. --- Human evolution.

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Female orgasm --- Women --- Sexual behavior

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De l'Antiquite´ a` aujourd'hui, les multiples de´nominations et descriptions errone´es du clitoris portent les traces de sa me´connaissance et de visions essentiellement masculines du corps et de la sexualite´. Conse´quence de cela, le clitoris reste nimbe´ d'un myste`re propice a` tous les fantasmes et ide´es rec¸ues. Ainsi n'aurait-il e´te´ de´couvert qu'a` la Renaissance et sa partie cache´e de´crite en 1998 seulement. Verge de la femme, selon certains, il serait, revanche ultime, mieux que le pe´nis ! Au travers d'une fine analyse historique et anatomique e´maille´e de nombreux exemples, Sylvie Chaperon et Odile Fillod montrent que, ni plus ni moins admirable que le pe´nis, le clitoris me´rite simplement d'e^tre mieux connu.

Female orgasm. --- Women --- Clitoris. --- Sexual behavior.

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"Délicat et viscéral, comme le plaisir qu'il exalte : tel est ce livre, le plus intime et le plus personnel de Maria Hesse. Elle y raconte son cheminement vers l'éveil sexuel, un chemin tortueux parsemé de culpabilité, de honte et d'ignorance, qu'elle a surmonté grâce à une curiosité insatiable et à l'exemple de ces femmes illustres qui ont su explorer le mystère et la puissance de la sensualité, affronter les préjugés de leur époque, donner un nom à ce qui leur manquait, et éclairer le chemin du plaisir pour que d'autres le suivent avec plus de légèreté.Des femmes de chair et de sang ou de fiction, telles Lilith, Marie-Madeleine, Colette, Anaïs Nin, Mata Hari, Simone de Beauvoir, Erika Lust, Daenerys Targaryen et bien d'autres... "

Women --- Female orgasm --- Clitoris --- Sexual behavior